I thought I was in there with chances because I'd made a- I'd helped on a film with- on a commercial with Losey, as focus puller not as cameraman, but, I thought I was in with chances there. Or maybe I was the camera I can't remember. Anyway, when Losey was due to make his first feature in Britain, I think under a pseudonym because he was a- he was a- one of the Hollywood Ten, or associated with that. Yeah- he was blacklisted. So, he was planning a film called "Time Without Pity" with Ann Todd. And, I thought I was in there with chances, but it turned out that Ann Todd had other ideas. She wasn't about to risk her, slightly aging appearance, she must have been 42, 44, something like that, and she didn't want to entrust herself to a young and untried cameraman. So that got scuppered. But my disappointment was soon over because I was offered "Another Sky" this opportunity to make this totally independent film, which I'll talk about separately, which is called "Another Sky". It came along and saved me from- from this great disappointment, which happened when I couldn't make "Time Without Pity" with Losey.

Born in Germany, cinematographer Walter Lassally (1926-2017) was best known for his Oscar-winning work on 'Zorba the Greek'. He was greatly respected in the film industry for his ability to take the best of his work in one area and apply it to another, from mainstream to international art films to documentary. He was associated with the Free Cinema movement in the 1950s, and the British New Wave in the early 1960s. In 1987 he published his autobiography called 'Itinerant Cameraman'.

Peter Bowen is a Canadian who came to Europe to study and never got round to heading back home. He did his undergraduate work at Carleton University (in Biology) in Ottawa, and then did graduate work at the University of Western Ontario (in Zoology). After completing his doctorate at Oxford (in the Department of Zoology), followed with a year of postdoc at the University of London, he moved to the University's newly-established Audio-Visual Centre (under the direction of Michael Clarke) where he spent four years in production (of primarily science programs) and began to teach film. In 1974 Bowden became Director of the new Audio-Visual Centre at the University of Warwick, which was then in the process of introducing film studies into the curriculum and where his interest in the academic study of film was promoted and encouraged by scholars such as Victor Perkins, Robin Wood, and Richard Dyer. In 1983, his partner and he moved to Greece, and the following year he began to teach for the University of Maryland (European Division), for which he has taught (and continues to teach) biology and film courses in Crete, Bosnia, and the Middle East.